POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Reflection_map : Re: Reflection_map Server Time
9 Aug 2024 21:18:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reflection_map  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 9 May 2000 22:31:15
Message: <chrishuff_99-5D019C.21343509052000@news.povray.org>

<ffj### [at] club-internetfr> wrote:

> Is there a way to do "reflection_map" in POV ?
> 
> It's a feature seen in Lightwave 5.6 : You stick a B&W image to an
> object, only the white areas will be reflective, while the dark parts
> will not reflect anything. Just like a bump_map, but with reflection.
> 
> Is there someway to work around this ?

This has come up before, I think it was decided that a "finish_map" 
feature would be more useful, but nobody has implemented it yet. In the 
mean time, use material_map(or, if you have MegaPOV, you can use 
texture_map with an image pattern).

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